Class 11 English Unit 15 War and
Peace answer
What is a sentence?
→A sentence is a combination of words that gives a complete
sense.
What is a sentence made up of?
→ A sentence is made up of two basic parts: the subject and the predicate.
What is a subject?
→ A subject is a part of a sentence that contains the person
or thing performing the action (or verb) in a sentence.
What is predicate?
→ Predicate is the verb-based part that the subject performs.
In other words, a predicate is the part of a sentence, or a clause, that tells
what the subject is doing or what the subject is.
What is a verb?
→ Verbs are the words that show an action, occurrence, or
state of being.
What is an object?
→ The object is the person or thing that receives the action
of the verb.
What is a complement?
→ A complement is a word or word group that completes the
predicate in a sentence.
What is an adverbial?
→ Adverbials are words that we use to give more information
about a verb.
Grammar
Sentence functions
A. Do you know the parts of a sentence? If not, look at this
sentence.
The fat man painted the door green last week.
In this sentence, the fat
man → Subject (S)
painted → Verb (V)
the door → Object (O)
green → Complement (C)
last week →
Adverbial (A)
B. Divide the following sentences into different parts.
Example: The man will buy a pen next week.
The man – will buy – a
pen – next week.
Subject + Verb + Object + Adverbial
a. The children are playing now.
→ The children – are playing- now.
→ Subject + Verb + Adverbial
b. Srijana will be reading a story.
→ Srijana - will be reading - a story.
→ Subject + Verb + Object
c. Bimala is a very beautiful girl.
→ Bimala - is - a very beautiful girl.
→ Subject + Verb
+ complement
d. She usually wears glasses.
→ She - usually –
wears - glasses.
→ Subject +adverbial+verb+
object
e. They elected him President.
→ They - elected - him - President.
→ Subject +verb + object +
compliment
f. Rabin is laughing.
→ Rabin - is laughing.
→ Subject + verb
g. He has a big house in Butwal.
→ He- has - a big house- in Butwal.
→ Subject + Verb +object + Adverbial
h. The man who lives next door is a professor.
→ The man who lives next door- is
-a professor.
→ Subject + Verb +object
i. Her uncle has been living in Kathmandu for fifteen years.
→ Her uncle - has been living -
in Kathmandu- for fifteen years.
→ Subject + Verb + Adverbial + Adverbial
j. The girl with long hair asked me a question last week.
→ The girl with long hair - asked
– me - a question-
last week.
→ Subject + Verb + object +
object + Adverbial